Building Barn Doors

This includes the hardware and track.

Building barn doors. Step 2 attach the top 2x6 crosspiece right at the top end of the door. Choose your barn door hardware before determining the door height. The best door system for a center aisle barn is a split slider double sliding door which is hung on rollers trolleys and slides on a track. The first sharing how to build the barn door and the second will be talking about barn door hardware and installation in our attic family room.

In my case the door was quite large. We have an awesome building project for you today. This is going to be a two part series. In this video i ll show you how to build a wooden barn door for under a 100.

Before putting it together sand each board and then coat each board with polyurethane stain. Build a sliding barn door in the same way as you would build a swinging barn door with the following exception. This will allow you to attach the wheels that run in the sliding door track to the crosspiece rather than to the ends of the 1 inch boards. If you are only making one door you could get it done in a day.

First build the barn door. After all the materials are on site the total time for this project is about one day to build and one day to paint for both doors. We re building sliding barn doors. I recommend 2 coats.

Check the measuring instructions or ask the manufacturer for help arriving at the door height. The total cost for our project was 100 per door plus 115 hanging hardware plus stain 350. 14 steps to building your. Building door for a center aisle barn.

To begin building these barn doors the first thing to do is to measure the door opening and determine if you ll need to build door jambs top and side pieces that line the rough opening and provide an anchoring surface for hinges and hardware. The finished size of each barn door we built is almost 7 tall and 3 3 wide. In most cases measuring to the top of an opening with no trim or to the top of the trim and subtract 1 2 in. Supplies for diy barn doors.

We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. The size will vary depending in your door opening. Follow this tutorial on how to build a sliding barn door from toh senior technical editor mark powers. I m wrapping up a project for a client and who has asked me to keep the barn.

Building a barn door is a simple project. From your measurement will give you the minimum door height required.